[Bug 521967] Re: support for new atheros wifi chipset - AR2427/ath9k

[Rolf Leggewie]

Capt'n'SaltyJack, I understand and sympathize with your frustrations.  I
tried to do my best as an ordinary user.  But I agree with you that the
official Ubuntu devs didn't do well here.  Unfortunately, it's something
I've been experiencing a lot lately, where even ready-to-apply patches
lingered for more than a release.  I put this problem on the radar very
early on in the cycle and nudged it forward whenever I could.  I
repeatedly poked the devs about it in IRC.  Nada, no reaction at all.
Upstream was very swift and it is a real shame the Ubuntu devs didn't
get their a** up to ship it in the final release.  The necessary effort
on their end was really minimal.

That said, the kernel package in my PPA is still waiting to be built.
Once that's done, grab the kernel from there (or compile the dsc
yourself in pbuilder).  That will get you a working ath9k module out of
the box.  I should tell you though, that I've had some issues with
stability of the wifi link when running VoIP over it.  I haven't yet
reported that, I wanted to get others to be able to test this first.

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support for new atheros wifi chipset - AR2427/ath9k
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521967
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